Stonehill student charged with child rape

Kevin Treseler, a 21-year-old junior at Stonehill College, has been charged with raping a third grader at the Angelo Elementary School in Brockton. Read the stories. Comments will be moderated.

For those of you who are criticizing the paper over this story, we don't have any idea if the student committed the crime, or if a crime even occurred. We have courts to sort that out. We have newspapers to report the news, and like it or not, this is news. You can pick up any newspaper any day of the week and find similar stories. Before you say, "That's why newspapers are dying," take a look at any newspaper from 1900 to 2000. We weren't dying then -- we're not now, actually -- and the crime coverage was even more pervasive.

If you had a child at the school and you found out that we knew about the story and downplayed it, or didn't report it at all, chances are you wouldn't be very happy with us.

It's hard to imagine the outcome of this case won't be on page 1, whatever it is. No one can say if Kevin Treseler will get his reputation back if he is acquitted or if the case is dropped. We didn't bring the changes. We only reported them.

A few comments were rejected because they suggested that people other than the defendant committed crimes against this child. Have at us if you like, but please don't drag other people into it.

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Kevin Treseler, a 21-year-old junior at Stonehill College, has been charged with raping a third grader at the Angelo Elementary School in Brockton. Read the stories. Comments will be moderated.

For those of you who are criticizing the paper over this story, we don't have any idea if the student committed the crime, or if a crime even occurred. We have courts to sort that out. We have newspapers to report the news, and like it or not, this is news. You can pick up any newspaper any day of the week and find similar stories. Before you say, "That's why newspapers are dying," take a look at any newspaper from 1900 to 2000. We weren't dying then -- we're not now, actually -- and the crime coverage was even more pervasive.

If you had a child at the school and you found out that we knew about the story and downplayed it, or didn't report it at all, chances are you wouldn't be very happy with us.

It's hard to imagine the outcome of this case won't be on page 1, whatever it is. No one can say if Kevin Treseler will get his reputation back if he is acquitted or if the case is dropped. We didn't bring the changes. We only reported them.

A few comments were rejected because they suggested that people other than the defendant committed crimes against this child. Have at us if you like, but please don't drag other people into it.